Adorable video of koala bear snuggling her baby goes viral

Koala

bears are truly one of the cutest, most adorable animals. This retweeted video by @buitengebieden_ which is going viral is proof.

The eight-second clip shows a

koala bear

sitting in a tree with her baby, named

Kimba

, snuggling. What is more adorable is how the mother koala bear holds the baby close and yawns right before falling asleep.

Watch the heart-warming video here:



The video was originally posted by

Tourism Australia

's official Twitter handle. “The koala joey season has taken place over the last few months in #Australia. Pictured here is Kimba and her mum at @WILDLIFESydnew zoo in @NewSouthWales.”

The video shared by @buitengebieden_ has garnered 32,000 likes and over 7,200 retweets. The post, which was captioned, “Twitter needs this,” also received lots of love from netizens.

These are some of the comments on the post: